March 10, 1986 | Volume 64, Issue 10

Snow Chief, partly owned by a former vaudevillian, won the Florida Derby to become the favorite for the Roses

Banned from the PGA Tour, Seve Ballesteros last week lent major presence to the fledgling TPA

Betting on football, basketball and baseball has become a huge nationwide business. Massive television exposure and the look-the-other-way attitude of league and club executives have helped...

Title 18 USC, Section 224 Bribery in Sporting Contests

Charles K. McNeil began his working life in 1926 as a math teacher in a prep school in Connecticut, but he later took up gambling as a full-time pursuit, and before he died in 1981, he had become...

Sports gambling is like air; it is all over the place, but getting a handle on it isn't easy. In seeking to come to grips with the subject for the special report that begins on page 30, senior...

Soon after you start to read David Falkner's new book about spring training (The Short Season, Times Books, $16.95), you may be tempted to say to yourself, "The sophomore jinx strikes again!"...

There is definitely a Jekyll-and-Hyde quality to the life of Dr. Ivan Mindlin of Las Vegas. Publicly, he is a gentle fellow with an intellectual air, a highly respected former orthopedic surgeon...

Those who defend gambling don't deny that it can be, in some cases, harmful to the wagerer and to society at large. But they argue that the ill effects aren't inevitable. They further contend that...

A new instructional videotape deserves attention because it features Bob Knight, Indiana's basketball coach. Those who buy it (Television Enterprise Network, $19.95) hoping to master the art of...

GROPING FOR A DRUG PLAN THAT WILL WORK

•Wayne Gretzky on fighting: "Sometimes people ask, 'Are hockey fights for real?' I say, 'If they weren't, I'd get in more of them.' "

Dave Gavitt of the Big East has the networks eating out of his hand

Jacksonville won its first Sun Belt Conference tournament since 1979

SOUTHEAST

DELL CURRY: Virginia Tech's 6'5" senior guard scored 74 points, sinking 31 of 43 attempts from the field, and had 15 rebounds and 10 steals in the Hokies' victories over Cincinnati and Florida State.

As any fan watching, say, a mid-March game between the Sacramento Kings and the Indiana Pacers can attest, the National Basketball Association games are not always models of perfection. Nor was...

PRO BASKETBALL—Boston won four times and increased its Atlantic Division lead over Philadelphia to nine games. In a 91-74 win over New York's Knicks, Larry Bird completed his fifth triple-double...

DIANNA VOGELDENVILLE, N.J.Dianna, a junior at Morris Knolls High, bettered a national high school record with a 1:15.06 in the 100-meter breast-stroke at a meet in Morristown, N.J. She cut .99 off...

FLO HYMAN'S LEGACY (CONT.)Sir:On Jan. 11, my 27-year-old husband, Rick, a marathon runner, died suddenly and, to my mind, inexplicably. One week later I met with the attending physician to discuss...